He was the national director of the Colombian drug enforcement unit and was murdered in retaliation for his work against the Medellin Cartel. Pablo Escobar was a feared and infamous Colombian Drug Lord who was often referred to as the King of Cocaine. An interview of one of the captured child spotters by Valeria Velez led to Carrillo having negative publicity, as he was portrayed as a child-killer and an American puppet. Carrillo and his convoy were ambushed by Medellin gunmen, and Carrillo was severely wounded by several gunshots. Amado Carrillo Fuentes (/ f u ˈ ɛ n t ə s /; December 17, 1956 – July 4, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord who seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo.

Carrillo was posted to Spain, ending his war with Escobar temporarily.

He’s an important character in the new Netflix series, Narcos: Mexico He constantly cooperated with the US Central Intelligence Agency and Drug Enforcement Agency, who used spy planes to pick up conversations from satellite phones and identify the speakers, allowing for them to track down drug barons. Escobar himself then arrived and confronted him, shooting him in the leg with a bullet that Carrillo had sent to Escobar via one of the captured spotters as a warning. Hugo Martinez, a veteran of the FARC conflict, became his successor. This is confirmed in the Netflix created Narcopedia article here.

Gustavo Gaviria - Bashed to death by Lastia and Trujillo on Carrillo's orders, orchestrated by Pacho and the Ochoa Brothers. Carrillo was the only man who Escobar feared, and he marked his return by leading 100 men into the Barrio Escobar to urinate on an Escobar mural.

''The rumour (he is alive) has as much credibility as the millions of sightings of the late Elvis Presley,'' they have said.Another drug lord supposedly killed in 2010, Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, is also rumoured to be alive and well.Coronel was one of four leaders of the powerful Sinaloa Federation headed by notorious billionaire El Chapo.Known as the “King of Crystal” for his domination of the crystal meth trade, Coronel ran the cartel’s operations in much of western Mexico from his base in Guadalajara.In her 2013 book, Narcoland, investigative journalist Anabel Hernández reported that the deceased’s fingerprints matched those of one Dagoberto Rodríguez, a man once arrested alongside Coronel in 1993.Furthermore, Hernández revealed that doctors placed his age at 40 to 45, but Coronel would have been 56 at the time.No DNA test was conducted, and some of those who saw the corpse reportedly said it “bore little or no resemblance” to a recent photo of Coronel.

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679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Amado Carrillo Fuentes died after attempting to undergo extensive plastic surgery in order to evade capture Credit: Reuters A graphic video showing Carrillo in his coffin was released. Hugo Martinez, a veteran of the FARC conflict, became his successor. Don Neto, also known by his full name of Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, was a key figure in the growth of the Mexican drug trade. Moment Molly-Mae turns down £350k and an £80k Range Rover to front Missguided Corrie's Mollie Gallagher looks very different as she takes break from filming 500,000 Brits face desperate dash to get home after France booted off safe list Teen cries for help after dog mauls her beloved pet to death before owner flees Sports fans can return to stadiums next month as lockdown measures ease further©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Sure Shot was a sicario working for Pablo Escobar. Carrillo and his convoy were ambushed by Medellin gunmen, and Carrillo was severely wounded by several gunshots. He was also known for laundering money via Colombia, to finance this fleet. He was the national director of the Colombian drug enforcement unit and was murdered in retaliation for his work against the Medellin Cartel. Amado Carrillo became known as "El Señor de Los Cielos" ("The Lord of the Skies"), because of the large fleet of jets he used to transport drugs. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services.The drugs kingpin was the most powerful cocaine trafficker in Mexico in the late 1990s with a personal fortune of £25bnA RUTHLESS drugs kingpin is rumoured to be living it up in Cuba after faking his own death to escape the clutches of the FBI and his deadly rival El Chapo.However, months after the Feds made him their prime target he "died" while apparently having plastic surgery to change his appearance.A grisly video was even released in 1997 said to show Fuentes in his coffin, however the face was so badly damaged it was not identifiable.At the time, some of those involved in hunting down Fuentes refused to believe the body that was buried However, the US Drugs Enforcement Agency has compared the unlikely claims to those that Elvis Presley is still alive.Conspiracy theorists to this day insist one of his luckless henchmen was killed and his corpse had then undergone surgery to make it look more like his boss.His cousin Sergio Carrillo sparked the bizarre rumours after the funeral when he said: “Amado is fine.